AWS Certification Jobs in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 244 197
Rank change year-on-year +98 -47 -22
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 42 37 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 0.38% 0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.58% 1.16% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 22 11 46
10th Percentile £42,625 £53,750 £37,090
25th Percentile £48,165 £60,000 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,745 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.34% +11.11% +17.39%
75th Percentile £68,525 £80,000 £85,325
90th Percentile £88,500 £81,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £69,000 £79,842 £77,835
% change year-on-year -13.58% +2.58% +3.78%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,630 3,178 2,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 41.37% 32.64% 44.06%
Number of salaries quoted 945 2,032 1,416
10th Percentile £29,116 £30,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £34,500 £41,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £72,296
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the South West

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the South West.

Salary trend for AWS Certification in the South West

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the South West over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the South West

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +51 12 £56,745 - 5
Gloucestershire +56 10 £60,000 -2.04% 15
Bristol +43 6 £63,750 -15.00% 12
Dorset +34 6 - - 4
Devon +29 5 - - 9
Somerset - 2 £43,750 - 1
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) Serverless
4 9 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 6 (14.29%) Pulumi
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.76%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (4.76%) GCP
8 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) Broadband
2 5 (11.90%) VLAN
3 4 (9.52%) Firewall
3 4 (9.52%) IPv4
4 3 (7.14%) DHCP
4 3 (7.14%) DMZ
4 3 (7.14%) DNS
4 3 (7.14%) LAN
4 3 (7.14%) WAN
4 3 (7.14%) Wireshark
5 2 (4.76%) Internet
5 2 (4.76%) OSPF
5 2 (4.76%) VPN
6 1 (2.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 7 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 7 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 6 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (11.90%) MySQL
4 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (9.52%) CockroachDB
6 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
6 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.76%) Big Data
8 1 (2.38%) DB2
8 1 (2.38%) Power BI
8 1 (2.38%) Redis
8 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Jaeger
2 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.76%) Selenium
3 1 (2.38%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) JUnit
3 1 (2.38%) Mockito
General
1 12 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (21.43%) Retail
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Law
3 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Banking
5 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.38%) Electronics
8 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.38%) Marketing
8 1 (2.38%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Lead
2 6 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 5 (11.90%) Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Security Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Change and Release Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Change Manager
4 4 (9.52%) IT Change Manager
4 4 (9.52%) IT Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Release Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Kafka
1 9 (21.43%) React
2 7 (16.67%) Spring
2 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (9.52%) HTML
5 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 3 (7.14%) RESTful
5 3 (7.14%) Serverless Framework
6 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.76%) CSS
6 2 (4.76%) HTML5
7 1 (2.38%) gRPC
7 1 (2.38%) OAuth
7 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.38%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Public Cloud
2 6 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security Posture
3 5 (11.90%) Security Posture
4 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (42.86%) Linux
2 14 (33.33%) Windows
3 7 (16.67%) Unix
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Agile
2 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
3 20 (47.62%) DevOps
4 16 (38.10%) Containerisation
5 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (30.95%) Computer Science
7 12 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven
8 11 (26.19%) Microservices
8 11 (26.19%) Product Management
9 10 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
9 10 (23.81%) Task Automation
10 9 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (21.43%) DevSecOps
10 9 (21.43%) Roadmaps
11 8 (19.05%) Cloud Security
11 8 (19.05%) High Availability
11 8 (19.05%) Project Delivery
12 7 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Java
2 14 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 13 (30.95%) Python
4 10 (23.81%) Bash
5 7 (16.67%) Go
5 7 (16.67%) SQL
6 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 4 (9.52%) R
8 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.38%) C++
9 1 (2.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Degree
1 16 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) Azure Certification
4 8 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (11.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (11.90%) CISM
5 5 (11.90%) CISSP
5 5 (11.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (9.52%) MCSA
6 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (7.14%) CCNA
7 3 (7.14%) MCP
7 3 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (23.81%) Ansible
2 10 (23.81%) Terraform
3 6 (14.29%) Argo
3 6 (14.29%) Kustomize
3 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.52%) Puppet
5 3 (7.14%) Iperf
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Google
1 7 (16.67%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Cisco
4 3 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 3 (7.14%) Ruckus Wireless
4 3 (7.14%) SonicWALL
4 3 (7.14%) VMware
5 2 (4.76%) Databricks
6 1 (2.38%) Cognos
6 1 (2.38%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.38%) SAP